DIVISON

objective

• Students will be able to correctly identify the components of a division problem.
• Students will use their understanding of place value to mentally find a division quotient.

Vocabulary

• The dividend is the number you are dividing
• The divisor is the number you are dividing by
• The quotient is the evenly divided result
• The remainder is what is left over that cannot be evenly divided

Untitled Slide

• A bakery sells muffins to local grocery stores in boxes that hold 20 muffins each. How many boxes are used if 60 muffins are sold? 600 muffins?

Using basic multiplication facts and patterns can be helpful in dividing by multiples of 10.

What are you doing when you divide?

• When you divide, you are trying to split something into equally numbered groups

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHEN YOU DIVIDE?

• Dividing 16 squares into 4 equal groups, gives you 4 groups that have 4 squares in each of the groups.

How do you solve a division problem?

• Solving a division problem is a step by step process The method we will learn today has 4 steps.

The Steps:

• FIND
• MULTIPLY
• SUBTRACT
• BRING DOWN

FIND

• Start by looking at the first number in the dividend Find the multiple of the divisor that comes closest to that number, without going higher Use your knowledge of math facts, or a multiplication grid
• Find the multiple of the divisor that comes closest to that number, without going higher
• Use your knowledge of math facts, or a multiplication grid

MULTIPLY

• Multiply the number that is the factor that you found times the divisor

SUBTRACT

• Subtract the number you got by multiplying the divisor, from the number in the dividend
• The difference should be SMALLER than the divisor.

BRING DOWN

• Bring down the next number, from the number in the dividend

REPEAT